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Month: February 2006

Editorial

“Judge a journal (also) by its cover”

When you received Critical Care and Shock today, you probably wondered why we changed its cover. For the second…

Abstracts

Abstracts of the 4th General Scientific Meeting, Society of Intensive Care Medicine (Singapore)

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Evidence based medicine

Cardiac troponin I elevation in subarachnoid hemorrhage: Should we worry?

Joseph Varon, Joanna Molina, Robert E. Fromm, Jr.

Troponin I can be used as a marker not only for cardiac outcome in patients with SAH; but also…

Evidence based medicine

Hyperglycemia after trauma: Physiologic and tolerable or a possible threat that needs to be corrected?

Joseph Varon, Gloria Salazar

Admission hyperglycemia is associated with an increased morbidity and mortality in the critically ill trauma population studied by Sung…

Case report

Demyelinating disease of the brain presenting as ring enhancing lesions in a critically ill patient

Joseph Varon, Salim Surani, Robert Ortiz Garcia, Fabricio Zuniga

A 26-year-old Latin-American woman with a history of alcohol and cocaine abuse was brought to the emergency department with…

Review

IABP deployment in critical care

Hafil B. Abdulgani, Dicky A. Wartono

The Intra Aortic Balloon Pump (IABP) is an established support in addition to pharmacologic treatment of the failing heart…

Original

Delayed neutrophil apoptosis in patients with multiple organ dysfunction syndrome

Noha El Sakka, Helen F. Galley, Ola Sharaki, Myriam Helmy, Salah Marzouk, Shafik Azmy, Mona Sedrak, Nigel R. Webster

Aged neutrophils undergo spontaneous apoptosis and delayed apoptosis is associated with persistence of inflammatory disorders through release of toxic…